• viking@infosec.pub
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    1 day ago

    Never heard of that thing, but apparently it was Apple exclusives? Deserved death then.

    I’m hoping ladybug will be operational for mainstream use, before the enshittification of Firefox progresses too far.

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      1 day ago

      It wasn’t supposed to stay Apple exclusive. In fact, when I last used Windows there was a beta build out for Arc. However, there were also multiple Firefox styles in the CSS Store that made Firefox into Arc.

      Then Zen Browser came out, and I’m currently watching it get very popular. I don’t doubt that Zen Browser is one of the reasons Arc is shutting down. It’s nearly an exact copy, but now with more features (and is constantly coming out with even more faster than Arc can think of them).

      I’m excited for Ladybird as well, but I’m not expecting anything crazy when it comes out of alpha and beta. I fully expect to wait a bit, maybe download to contribute some troubleshooting, but it may not be viable as a main use browser for a long time yet.

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        24 hours ago

        It’ll be a great browser by 2029 IMO, and honestly that’s not that long compared to the development time all other browsers have had.

        We shall see, I’m excited to start testing it out next year when it’s in Alpha

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          15 hours ago

          You can already test it out in very early alpha, but I can tell you now that it’s just a portal with very basic browser controls. You’ll have to build it through the Python script.

          I built it through Arch already and its a working browser is about all I can really say about it. The little I tried of it works.

          The instructions to build the early alpha are on the github page here.

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              24 minutes ago

              Lol, I just mention it because I have no other experience with Ladybird. There’s an Ubuntu/Debian section and a Choco for Windows. I would assume macOS uses homebrew, but I didn’t read that far into it. I can only confirm that I got the Arch version working after a bit of compiling.

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      1 day ago

      Well that’s shooting yourself in the damn foot.

      Apple users are a tiny percentage, and most of the sort that happily uses whatever Apple gives them without question or concern for other options. I have no idea what this thing did, but if it did something different than every other browser should start targeting Windows and Linux.